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Merry Mice in pastels

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I shared a fairly bright Christmas card featuring the Merry Mice. Here’s another one, this one rather more muted. The image of the three adorable mice is again stamped in archival basic black on watercolour paper.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merry Mice - Star of Light

I used my aquapainter to colour these in and added more water than usual. So the first mouse is actually coloured in real red and marina mist although he looks pink. The next mouse is in blushing bride and wisteria wonder with a garden green bow in her hair. The third mouse of the trio has more marina mist and real red with real red and garden green lights.I used a little sahara sand for all of their faces, hands and feet so that they weren’t so anemic looking. I matted this with a piece of basic black to make it really pop and then put that onto a garden green card base onto which I’d already stamped the sentiment. This is from the Star of Light set and I (nearly) always stamp a sentiment before adding the main image for two reasons. Firstly, the layers can throw off your stamp-a-ma-jig or block and make things crooked. And of course you can always mess it up and then you’ve got a problem to fix. This way, if it goes wrong, I can turn the card the other way around and put my inside insert over the messed up sentiment. I’m happy to say that this wasn’t necessary in this case.

You can see a hint of the Holly TIEF that I used to dry emboss the envelope flap. It’s a fun and easy – and impressive – way to add interest to the envelope.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is MSJ9ZMGN (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

More Merry Mice

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Here’s another card I made this time using the trio of mice in the Merry Mice set.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merry Mice

I stamped the image on watercolor paper in archival basic black ink and then used a handful of the Stampin’ Write markers to colour it in – real red, dapper denim, daffodil delight and emerald envy. I also used an aquapainter to get a pale amount of sahara sand on the faces and feet. Just go to town and colour as you like, it’s relaxing and fun. Once I completed my colouring, I stamped one of the sentiments from the set in more black onto a real red base and then added my piece of watercolour. I decided not to crop the piece but to leave a fair amount of unused watercolour paper to give the impression that these mice are really marching along. It’s a really cute set and currently on sale this month at 25% off – the clear set is only $12.75, how can you resist?

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Merry Mice Stamp Set

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This is an adorable card, I made it at the weekend at the crop. Julia had the Merry Mice set and I decided that I needed to play with it.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merry Mice - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Christmas Greeting Thinlits - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I stamped him in archival basic black and then coloured him in with markers – garden green, cherry cobbler, smoky slate and blushing bride in the ears – the ears were too bright so I used a blender pen to soften them. I then found a sweater pattern from the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack and stamped the mouse onto it and cut out his sweater. Somehow I got really lucky and the pattern was perfectly centred and makes the mouse look so cosy. Next I cut him out with the stitched shapes framelits dies. I also stamped just the star onto a piece of gold glimmer paper and fussy cut out the star. To finish off my card, I used the Christmas Greetings Thinlits and a scrap of gold glimmer paper to make the jolly. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the Holly TIEF.

These stitched dies are available now in advance of next year’s annual catalog and to really sweeten the deal, there are a number of coordinating sets available at 25% off this month – Merry Mice is one of them.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz